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Finishing with a Flourish
… It’s the 135th playing of The Game, Fenway Park, midway through … Tom Stewart had completed his inspirational if improbable rise from benchwarmer to team MVP and All-Ivy Honorable …
Issue: January-February 2019
Grover Norquist, America's “Most Powerful Man”?
… The Sunday Boston Globe Magazine's cover story features “The Most Powerful Man in America*”—a profile of Grover Norquist '78, M.B.A. '81, the prominent antitax …
Star Turn
… As newcomers to a Crimson graduation may not realize, the prize speaking parts in the morning ceremony belong to … representing Harvard Divinity School at the end of its bicentennial-year celebration (the Graduate English Address). They are profiled below, and in the Gazette . They convened for a …
Going Home Again
… The final project for my fall semester writing course … year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Glad to be free of the … to represent underlying turmoil, drastic changes, and crises in their works. But apart from the comfort I found in …
Issue: May-June 2004
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Annual Compensation
… The University today released its tax return for nonprofit … the compensation paid to the president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC, which is …
News Briefs: Important University Updates
… Quantum Quest As befits its subject, the Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 6 is a small part of a much … in quantum science, and most major cloud-computing enterprises, and other private businesses, are pursuing …
Issue: July-August 2021
Good Poets Make Bad Neighbors
… and Carl Sandburg were contesting which one would emerge as the poet laureate of America. At Harvard in 1942 we had both, in succession, … won the prize for his prose, for his monumental biography of Lincoln—strangely, for history, not biography. Even …
Sarah Thomas Will Also Head FAS Libraries
… Sarah Thomas, vice President for the Harvard Library, has just been named to a second post: Larsen librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In this additional role, reporting to Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith, she will oversee …
"This Shaking Keeps Us Steady"
… hard to imagine that an earthquake might ever shake these stately buildings. The ground of Harvard feels like steady ground. Freshman year, though, … crazy,” he said. He had never seen a church steeple made of stone. That was the first time it hit me: some people …
Issue: July-August 2009
Allston Commercial Development Advances
… B oston regulators have finally approved the first, 9.4-acre phase of the “enterprise research campus” (ERC) in Allston, a largely commercial …
Football 2018: Harvard 33, Holy Cross 31
… If there is such a thing as a midseason must-win, … night at the Stadium qualified. The Crimson was coming off a demoralizing loss at Cornell and soon would be facing … unveiled yet another in a seemingly inexhaustible supply of sophomore sensations in wide receiver Tyler Adams. The …
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Harvard's 351st Commencement, a constellation of luminaries larger than in any year since 1993, when Julia Child, Colin Powell, and 12 others became honorary alumni. In order of presentation, this year's honorands were: Lee Photo by …
Issue: July-August 2002
Catherine Dulac
… “The sense of smell was very poorly understood,” says professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, until a seminal 1991 paper on odorant …
Issue: September-October 2005
Chapter & Verse
… can identify "Fougère," a reference in an 1895 review of The Importance of Being Earnest in which Cecily is described as "an ingenue …
Issue: May-June 2003
Arts and Sciences' Ambitious Plans
… In his annual report, published in early February, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby outlined three …
Issue: March-April 2004